IRAN has claims it has captured a US drone but the US Navy says all its unmanned aircraft in the region are "fully accounted for".
The conflicting accounts still leave the possibility that the drone claimed by Iran, a Boeing-designed ScanEagle, could have been plucked from the sea in the past and unveiled for maximum effect following escalating tensions over US surveillance missions in the Gulf.
Other countries in the region - such as the United Arab Emirates - also have ScanEagle drones in their fleets.
A spokesman for the US Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain said ScanEagles operated by the Navy "have been lost into the water" over the years, but there is no record of that occurring recently.
The Iranian announcement did not give details on the time or location of the claimed drone capture.
Iran claimed it captured the drone after it entered Iranian airspace. A report on state TV quoted the navy chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, General Ali Fadavi, as saying the Iranian forces caught the "intruding" drone, which had apparently taken off from a US aircraft carrier.
Al-Alam, the Iranian state TV's Arabic-language channel, showed two Guard commanders examining what appeared to be an intact ScanEagle drone. It was not immediately clear if that was the same drone Iran claimed to have captured.
In the footage, the two men then point to a huge map of the Persian Gulf in the background, showing the drone's alleged path of entry into Iranian airspace.
"We shall trample on the US," was printed over the map, next to the Guard's coat-of-arms.
If true, the seizure of the drone would be the third reported incident involving Iran and US drones in the past two years.
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